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Originally Posted by FellaGaga-52
In regard to religion, Jack Kornfield writes of "the essence beneath the story." The story is Jesus, the story is Buddha, the story is Muhammad, the story is Krishna, the story is Zeus, the story is The Great Spirit. The essence is the underlying values and need for values. A myth is a myth, a magic story is a magic story, an archetype is an archetype. Many such narratives are fashioned across cultures. If they are identified as pre-scientific amalgam of attempts at understanding human existence, they can offer something. Their claims are no more exclusionary of each other than Harry Potter is to Spiderman. They are what they are: facets of Huxley's "perennial philosophy" ... borne of a human impulse as real as the love of music. When the study of this is moved away from magic stories and superstitions to the nature of human consciousness, a different picture entirely emerges. Then the phenomenon of dueling religions is seen for what it is: a fallacious type of perspective.
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Originally Posted by craig1120
Signs you’re missing something important and it’s time to detach yourself from your current truth-seeking position:
(1) You haven’t yet reached the promised land
(2) You’re starting to completely dismiss the time tested religious position of a group of people around you
Point #2 doesn’t mean the group is completely right or even close to completely right, but to see a group of people as entirely detached from truth and reality is a red flag indicating you’re in the wrong position.
And so if you are in China, or Russia, or Nepal, or India, or Haiti, or Africa ... if you are detached from the religious beliefs around you that's a red flag?? Or is it just in the "right believing" cultures?
But here is an even better point. If your religious belief emanates from the 1st Century, take a look at just what percentage of what they thought and believed then is true, on every subject under the sun. And then you realize the colossal foolishness of arguing in this manner, on religion or for any of their other beliefs. You might as well be arguing the earth is flat and that demons cause leprosy. THAT is how you are limiting your worldview.
Last edited by FellaGaga-52; 04-10-2024 at 09:34 PM.